Earlier this summer, Switzerland’s parliament narrowly voted in favour of a bill to scrap the current federal system of joint ...

Researchers found that among couples hit with a marriage penalty, Black couples paid less in dollars ($1,804 versus $2,091) but more as a share of their income than White couples (1.8% versus 1.4%).

Why the marriage penalty happens The reason some taxpayers pay a marriage penalty has to do with the way the tax brackets are set up. For the 10% and 15% brackets, the income limits for each ...

WAYS TO END THE MARRIAGE PENALTY President George W. Bush campaigned on the need to enact a comprehensive tax cut to give back to Americans part of the overtax they now pay, and reducing the ...

Why the marriage penalty happens The reason some taxpayers pay a marriage penalty has to do with the way the tax brackets are set up. For the 10% and 15% brackets, the income limits for each ...

Not only do marriage penalties leave families economically worse off, they also undermine marriage, an essential institution in a functioning society. 0:00 0:51 Brad Wilcox and Patrick T. Brown ...

Here's why this is considered to be a penalty. Let's say that two successful single individuals each earn $250,000 per year. According to the 2017 tax brackets, these individuals would each fall ...

While the marriage penalty can hit all couples, it can be rough for high-earning LGBT couples. Much of the tax code is designed to benefit the Ozzie and Harriet nuclear family, where one spouse ...

His proposal for reducing the marriage penalty in 2001 is to go back to 1981 and permit the second earner in two-earner couples to deduct 10 percent of income, up to $ 30,000.

In a few short months, I’ll pass the milestone that every little girl dreams of: the day she swears — before family and God, in sickness and in health, all in the name of love — that she’s ...

The marriage penalty needs to go. It’s a throwback to the days when women were homemakers and men were breadwinners.